Liars - Liars (LP)

Facts Simply titled 'Liars', their 4th full-length (recorded in Berlin and LA and mixed in London by producer Gareth Jones) abandons the thirty minute sound collages in favour of a set of the band's most conventional and powerful songs yet. 'Liars' is a set of songs only connected by the fact that no other band around could make music like this. From the demonic football chant of 'Clear Island', to 'Freak Out's industrial Beach Boys loveliness, the metal-flavored birth rite of 'Cycle Time' or 'Houseclouds's no-fi electro shuffle, this is an album that manages to balance the old, experimentally-minded Liars with an excitingly insidious new pop edge.